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Effervescent little Bob Becker, middle-aged outdoor editor of the Chicago Tribune, whose patter is peppered with gee whizzes and holy smokes, is No. 1 U.S. dogcaster. Dog-lovers for a decade have faithfully tuned in on his expert Chats About Dogs; his best-selling How to Raise & Train Your Puppy (Sundial; $1) is a standard reference work. Among his own dogs are several blue-ribbon winners. Becker's sideline claim to fame is that he discovered a new subspecies of bat in Bolivia which Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History named after him: Eumops Bonariensis Beckeri...
Claude R. Wickard, this new food-conservation program has been named the Becker Plan by enthusiastic fish and wildlife directors...
...personal: some historians, like Cornell's brilliant Carl Becker, refused to broadcast...
...Home Book of Christmas-ed. by May Lamberton Becker...
...Shanghai first in the '20s, a sailor off a U.S. Yangtze Patrol sloop, drinking in the dives along "Blood Alley." When he finished his hitch in the Navy he went back to the U.S., soon landed in the Oklahoma State penitentiary under the name of Johnny Becker, with a 25-year sentence for attempted highjacking. Two years later he escaped from jail, headed again for Shanghai...